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tlie costse being occupied by a single row of large quadrangular 

 transverse pits, about 20 in each. row. Tbe costae are very well 

 marked. 



Port Lincoln. 



MTCETOPHAaiD^. 



Typhcea fumata, Linn. I bave taken tbis widely distributed 

 insect at Port Lincoln. I believe it has not been previously 

 recorded as occurring in Australia. 



HETEEOCERIDiE. 



HETEEOCEEIJS. 



H. 'Flindersi^ sp. nov. Elongato-oblongus ; niger, griseo- 

 pubescens ; protboracis angulis posterioribus marginatis ; 

 elytris subtiliter puuctulatis, testaceo-notatis ; pedibus 

 (genubus tibiarumque margine exteriori exceptis) pro- 

 tboracis angulis anticis testaceis. Long. If — 2 1. 

 Head and protborax opaque, excessively finely punctured, 

 tbe latter narrow in front, wide bebind ; its sides gently 

 arcbed, its posterior angles obtuse. Elytra not much wider 

 tban tbe thorax, finely (but as compared with most species of 

 the genus not particularly so) and evenly punctured. The 

 lateral margins are testaceous, the testaceous border dilated 

 and running out towards tbe disc of the elytra just in front of 

 and just behind the middle j on the disc of eacb elytron are five 

 narrow elongate testaceous marks ; two in front of the middle 

 almost parallel to each other, the external one a little nearer 

 the front than the other, two bebind the middle, side by side, 

 parallel, and in some examples coalescing, and one near the 

 apex (varying in form from a mere line to the shape of the 

 Greek letter gamma) wbich in most examples runs into the testa- 

 ceous lateral border. On the underside the hind-body has a 

 testaceous border . The legs are pale testaceous, the external 

 margin of the tibiae and (in many examples) the knees and 

 even the inner margin of the tibicT infuscated. 



Port Lincoln ; also on the banks of the Torrens near Ade- 

 laide. 



H. multimacuJatus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; fuscus, griseo- 

 pubescens ; protboracis angulis posterioribus marginatis ; 

 huic margine laterali, antennis, pedibusque, testaceis ; 

 *elytris pallide fuscis, longitudinaliter fusco multimacu- 



* While this paper was in the press, I received from Mr. R. H. Pulleine a 

 specimen Heterocerus, in bad condition and quite denuded of pubescence, 

 which I beheve to be H. midtimaculatus. In that case, the species is evi- 

 dently variable in respect of colour, as the example which forms this note 

 has elytra entirely blackish-brown, except a longitudinal line from the base 

 on either side the scutellum, a semicircle between it and the margin, the- 

 margin itself, and a few spots near the apex, all which are testaceous. 



